Abundant Harvests - garden info
Edible Gardens around Los Angeles
Some of my favorite Edible and Functional gardens around Los Angeles. All these gardens are open to the general public during selected hours (see their websites for hours and directions). in Westchester/LA 90045 … Community Garden at Holy Nativity –…
Toxic lawns
If you thought a “GMO-Free Zone” in Los Angeles wasn’t too important because there aren’t a lot of farmers inside the City, think again. Scotts and Monsanto are getting ready to surround you with genetic modification: genetically engineered lawn grass.…
Crop rotations in So. Calif: When to change seasons
It’s autumn in Southern California. Or is it? The weather has changed. Wait, it’s changed back again… Contrary to what East Coast people say, Southern California does have its seasons. But there’s rarely a clear “cutoff” date. Add climate-change-driven Weather…
Cut-and-come-again harvesting
Cut and what? Cut-and-come-again harvesting is the name for the technique we use at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity for harvesting all of our leafy greens. Chard, kale, collards, all are handled this way. Think of the little girl’s…
What do GMOs have to do with Resilience?
In so many ways, GMOs deplete any resilience in our food supply. GMOs are perhaps the ultimate pinnacle of petroleum-dependent agriculture. These plants are laboratory-engineered specifically to work together with petro-chemicals: herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers. Headed into a world with increasingly…
Fear and Action
Fear. It’s that chill that creeps up your spine. That awful, churning hot knot, deep in the pit of your stomach. The tremble that makes your hands feel powerless. The freeze-up, that tempts you to inaction. But you can’t give…
Backyard Wildlife Habitats
Elements of Backyard Wildlife Habitats 1. Food 2. Water 3. Cover 4. Places to Raise Young 5. Sustainable Gardening –from the National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program * Water * Cover * Open ground * Mulch * Nectar sources * Fruit…
Why edible landscaping?
• Edible landscaping puts the city footprint to use.• Your landscape water performs dual duty – aesthetic AND food production.• Edible landscaping helps cut the oil use, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions of importing your food.• Health: You can control…
A fungus among us
Compost and mulch, compost and mulch, I had heard it a million times. But Lowenfels and Lewis’s book was an eye-opener. Certain of our edible plants prefer soils which are heavily populated by bacterial soil life. Others of our edible…
About the Legume family
Members of the Legume family – peas, beans, and all their cousins – are superstar soil-builders. In partnership with certain beneficial bacteria, legumes can capture nitrogen from the atmosphere and lock it into the soil where other plants can access…